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  • Ben Hart
    November 14, 2013 at 6:48 am #45400

    We’ve been busy all year and the boss wanted to hire another bodyman. He couldn’t find anyone so he hired a painter a few weeks ago and now I am back to body work. Here’s what I’ve been up to (sorry for the low quality pics):

    Ford Escape, had to pull and repair the front rails and rad support and replace the lower tie bar:
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    Here is a civic with 2 claims, 1 conventional hail repair, the other collision, replaced the lt 1/4. There’s about 100 hours on this thing:
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    Here is a CX-7, another 1/4 panel job:
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    Here is a weird hit that I did today on a civic. The car hit the curb hard with the front rt wheel. Damaged suspension and set off the side airbags. I had to nearly gut the entire interior to replace all the seat belts, sensors and bags. Then got to do the control arm, knuckle/hub etc:
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    Chris
    November 14, 2013 at 2:36 pm #45404

    Interesting stuff, Ben. What you do is three separate trades here. Panel beater, spray painter and mechanic. Guess that’s the beauty of working in a small shop, eh?

    Scott
    November 14, 2013 at 4:05 pm #45405

    Looking good Ben, its nice to see they are keeping you busy! Atleast you don’t have to be f’in with the AWX.

    W
    November 14, 2013 at 5:12 pm #45414

    Looking good.

    brandon dingwell
    November 14, 2013 at 7:27 pm #45417

    Nice stuff Ben

    jackcarlson
    November 14, 2013 at 9:26 pm #45418

    thanks for the pics ben going ta have ta start calling ya japan man with all those imports :weights well cept the ford of course

    Craig
    November 14, 2013 at 10:14 pm #45419

    Nice work Ben :clappy …but your camera sucks worse than mine..or you’ve got too much overspray on it :).

    Ben Hart
    November 16, 2013 at 9:27 pm #45438

    Thanks for all the nice comments everyone. My camera died a while back, so I’m just using the crappy one on my ipod. I like working on the Asian cars, Jack, but I’m making sure to save all the Subaru’s for you.

    NFT5-
    Here, Autobody Technician and Automotive Refinisher are 2 separate trades, but apprentices are strongly encouraged to do both (like I did). Automotive Service Technician (Mechanic) is a separate trade from body. Here you have to be licenced to perform any of these tasks. However, there is some overlap in training. As a Body Tech, we have training and are allowed to perform some mechanical repairs that are collision related (suspension steering, brakes, a/c, exhaust, wheel alignments, airbags, and basic R&I of most components). However, many body techs/shops will sublet repairs to a mechanic.

    As a rough example of the current training, about 1/2 of a body techs apprenticeship is sheet metal repair (welding, body filler, metal working, minor panel replacement, prepping etc), 1/4 is frame/structural repair and major panel replacement, and 1/4 is mechanical.

    nick
    November 16, 2013 at 11:31 pm #45439

    Nice work plenty of variation, we very rarely see hale damage in the Uk

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